1. Search for peer-reviewed
articles relevant to the topic; analyze the findings from articles and do a
review on their specific topic.
2. Based on the literature
review, identify an innovative nutrition therapy, a nutrition
program/counseling service, or a nutrition product that you would like to
develop. For example, if your topic is about berry extracts and cognitive
function, and you have overall positive findings from literature, your product
to design could be a berry extract supplement; If literature review shows
mostly negative results, but you think that one of the plausible direction is
to do a berry-rich diet instead, then you can propose a pilot treatment program
having people follow the berry-rich menu to test whether your hypothesis is
valid.
3. You should include the rationale (literature review), product/service description,
innovation, target market and competition.
4. The review
should be less than 8 pages , double spaced, 12-pt font,
Times New Roman, with 1-inch margins.
You can include as many
references as needed. There is no requirement of how many articles you should
cite.
Content of the literature review
section may include background information, explanation of concepts, and
summery of original studies that either support or reject hypotheses relevant
to the topic. Besides objective description of study findings, you should also
include your conclusions based on current collective evidence, point out
limitations of existing evidence and what remains to be examined, and finally
describe future directions of research.